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General Knowledge Quiz 214 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which word is the strict technical term meaning to move a camera or lighting effect vertically?
2. Who wrote the songs "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "I Get A Kick Out Of You" ?
3. What Hawaiian word is informally used for "an important person" ?
4. In 1523 a violent and destructive clash between two powerful Japanese clans in the Chinese city of Ningbo and beyond led to what?
5. In 1989, there was a peaceful transfer of power to non-Communist governments in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and which other country?
6. What country do Les Bleus play for and in which of these sports?
7. Which does Cavendish relate to?
8. With which sport is Michael Jordan, who represented the USA at the Olympic Games in 1984 & 1992, associated?
9. A roughly east-west belt of what, separates the land mass of central Asia from the northward-travelling land mass of India and its neighbours?
10. The explorer Abel Tasman discovered Australia and New Zealand in what year?
11. Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, introduced 2 prayer books under Edward VI, and was executed for heresy under Mary I?
12. How many languages are recognised as official in the European Parliament?
13. Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrim's activities in Plymouth in 1621?
14. Which art form did all of Léo Delibes, Aaron Copland, Ottorino Respighi, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky compose for?
15. Which Formula One team, based in Woking, Surrey, UK, and founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, has won over 160 races, 12 Drivers' Championships and 8 Constructors' Championships?
16. Bruce Dickinson, the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1981 to 1993, represented England at what sport?
17. A genus of colourful flowering plants, whose name means "daughter of the wind" is called what?
18. The peaceful overthrow of the government in Czechoslovakia in 1989 was known as what?
19. Which of these is an aid to hearing?
20. The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
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